Dundy County Hospital, a 14-bed critical access facility with two clinics, which serves southwestern Nebraska, northeastern Colorado and portions of Kansas, has purchased Healthlands inpatient EHR.

The New Mexico Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center has selected Sage Healthcare Division as a qualified EHR provider.

John Kennedy, MD, has been named vice president for medical affairs at Mercy Hospital Fairfield and also CMIO for Mercy Health Partners.

The Standards Development Organization's Standards Charter Organization, a collaboration among U.S. healthcare standards development organizations, has named John Quinn, chief technical officer of Health Level Seven International (HL7), as its chair. Margaret Weiker, Accredited Standards Committee X12 Insurance Subcommittee chair, has been named SCOs chair-elect.

Canadian authorities have completed the review of CT scan reads performed by one radiologist at St. Josephs General Hospital in Comox and alerted patients and physicians to significant discrepancies in 180 scans.

CMIO.net presents a weekly update of the EHR products certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCBs). The following EHR certification was announced recently:

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released several resources to help eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals navigate CMS web-based attestation system as well as other steps in the process for receiving Medicare EHR incentive payments.

The Indian Health Service has become the first federal agency to have its EHR certified for meaningful use. The IHS Resource and Patient Management System Suite 1.0 has been certified as a Complete EHR for ambulatory and inpatient settings, based on criteria established by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.